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	<title>Best Practices for Legal Education</title>
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	<description>A Vision and a Road Map</description>
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		<title>THE ELECTION AND BEST PRACTICES</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/11/05/the-election-and-best-practices/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/11/05/the-election-and-best-practices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For many of us in the United States, these past 24 hours have been filled with emotion.  We experienced the  most inclusive voting in our country&#8217;s history, the election of the first African American president, the power of a people&#8217;s movement and the promise of change in the midst of very difficult times.  We recalled the struggles of people who fought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Year Practicum Course</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/11/02/first-year-practicum-course/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/11/02/first-year-practicum-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antoinette Sedillo Lopez</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices & Curriculum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[First Year Law School Innovations]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Teaching Methodology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Jenny Moore permitted me to post this course description for Practicum.  She, Alfred Mathewson and  Sergio Pareja are each teaching one section of First Year Contracts.    The Practicum is a one credit course connected to  Contracts.  Here is her description: 

University of New Mexico School of Law Practicum course (Fall 2008)    
 
OVERVIEW:  The goal of the first year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Practices and Math for Lawyers</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/11/01/best-practices-and-math-for-lawyers/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/11/01/best-practices-and-math-for-lawyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antoinette Sedillo Lopez</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Catalysts For Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Teaching Methodology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ I have been getting some feedback from members of the bar that recent graduates are not as savvy about math and accounting as they have been in the past.  I was assured it was not just UNM graduates, but it made me think about the recommendation in Best Practices to prepare students for the practice [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Antoinette Sedillo Lopez</media:title>
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		<title>Bar Passage and Best Practices for Legal Education</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/27/bar-passage-and-best-practices-for-legal-education/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/27/bar-passage-and-best-practices-for-legal-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antoinette Sedillo Lopez</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices & Curriculum]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices, Diversity & Social Justice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Teaching Methodology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Who is Using the Best Practices Book?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Alfred Mathewson always makes me think.  He came back from the American Bar Association  Bar Exam Passage conference last week.  He had attended the Crossroads conference at the University of Washington too.  He had some interesting observations.  He said there were several schools that were creating “tracks” for students in the lower end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interactive Assessment Program at the AALS Annual Meeting</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/22/more-assessment-at-the-aals-annual-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/22/more-assessment-at-the-aals-annual-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antoinette Sedillo Lopez</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices, Outcomes & Assessment Techniques]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Catalysts For Change]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Assessment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am really excited about moderating and serving as commentator of the second session of the Joint Program sponsored by the Clinical and Professional Responsibility Sections to be held in San Diego on Wednesday, January 7.   It is on assessment and is going to be very interactive.  At the International Clinical Conference this summer, I had the distinct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11th Annual Northwest Clinical Conference:  On Assessment</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/21/11th-annual-northwest-clinical-conference-on-assessment/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/21/11th-annual-northwest-clinical-conference-on-assessment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmaranville</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices for Institutional Effectiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wish you all could have been there for the 11th Annual Northwest Clinical Conference at the beautiful Sleeping Lady Conference Center outside Leavenworth in Washington&#8217;s Cascade Mountains. Our topic?  A central Best Practices issue:  Assessment.
In educating us about assessment master teachers Gerry Hess, Sophie Sparrow and Greg Munro demonstrated best teaching practices to clinicians from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do clinics have to do with US News &#38; World Report? The unfortunate answer is &#8220;not much&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/16/what-do-clinics-have-to-do-us-news-world-report-the-unfortunate-answer-is-not-much/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/16/what-do-clinics-have-to-do-us-news-world-report-the-unfortunate-answer-is-not-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>karenalash</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Who is Using the Best Practices Book?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If it&#8217;s fall, then the US News &#38; World Report law school rankings ballots are arriving in law professor mailboxes everywhere. More specifically, clinic directors are receiving the separate clinical specialty ballots (as are teachers of the other separate specialty rankings), and four members of every law school faculty will get the annual &#8220;peer assessment&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Practices Makes The Chronicle</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/06/best-practices-makes-the-chronicle/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/06/best-practices-makes-the-chronicle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cbgrose</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Who is Using the Best Practices Book?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to our friends at the Clinicians With Not Enough To Do blog for finding this:
Print: Due Processors: Educators Seek a Digital Upgrade for Teaching Law - Chronicle.com
By PETER MONAGHAN
Seattle
In 1871, Christopher Columbus Langdell, a prominent jurist who had joined the law faculty at Harvard University, hit on the idea of compiling thick, imposing “casebooks” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Your Calendars for the 2009 AALS Workshop on Clinical Legal Education</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/02/mark-your-calendars-for-the-2009-aals-workshop-on-clinical-legal-education/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/10/02/mark-your-calendars-for-the-2009-aals-workshop-on-clinical-legal-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cbgrose</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Upcoming Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Jane Spinak:
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the workshop committee, I am sending a brief description of the May workshop so that you can start planning your trip soon. We will be issuing RFPs in October for the two concurrent sessions that are being planned and for organizing the affinity group meetings described below. We will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passion, Context Redux (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/09/30/passion-context-redux-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2008/09/30/passion-context-redux-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmaranville</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As I noted in my last post, one of the fun aspects of getting a few gray hairs is that we sometimes are around long enough to see a few of our ideas come to fruition.
In my article Infusing Passion and Context into the Traditional Curriculum Through Experiential Learning, 51 J. Legal Educ 51, 63 [...]]]></description>
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